A Wild Wild Web Manifesto
- Physicality is overrated. I will strive to purchase or acquire digital versions of all things before physical. I will not print.
- If you don't know how the system works, then you are just a user. Users will be used. Don't be a user.
- The overwhelming majority of users are stupid. I don't care what stupid people think; therefore, I avoid the comments section of any site, unless it allows filtering and ranking.
- I will not click on the "Recommendations for You" links provided by consumer sites like Amazon and Netflix, my interests are too complex and ecclectic for any algorithm to predict.
- I will not allow the promise of A.I. rob me of personal responsibility. I will seek past the Google results. I will...
- People power the Internet. How we power it as individuals determines whether we are cogs in the machine or masters of it. When we re-tweet, like/dislike, or rate items, we are behaving like cogs.
- Pirates are capitalists, emulating the corporatist evils they claim to fight. True revolutionaries wouldn't trade in copyrighted media, but would promote creative commons artists.
- I reject Red-Baiting. Creative Commons, Net Neutrality, and Open Source are not are not Communism, Socialism, or "Digital Maoism". They are...
- I will resist homogenization. RSS, Facebook, and Wikipedia force content into a bland, standardized format. The front page of a news site directs attention in intelligent ways according to the aesthetic of fellow humans, not algorithms.
- I will not dumb-down my content or its title for stupid algorithms. Web hits produced by dumb algorithms are not worth degrading the media I produce.
- Homogenization is destroying the web. I will strive to produce unique content in unique ways. I will not allow my content to be vapidized by sites that force us to conform to their style.
- Supporting the arts?
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